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PC Pro Hardware Test
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25 Questions

1. How many pins are on a VGA connector?

2. You want to upgrade all memory in your system with the fastest memory available. Which of the following should you choose?

3. Which of the following use Centronics-type connectors?

4. You have a CD-RW drive that advertises speeds of 32x/12x/48x. What is the read speed of the drive?

5. which type of network medium is used by an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) adapter?

6. Which of the following are advantages of using fiber optic cabling for a network, as opposed to other types of cabling? ()

7. Which of the following are characteristics of the ExpressCard /54 form factor ()

8. you have been tasked with designing a workstation that will run VMware Workstation hypervisor software. It will be used by a software engineer to run virtual machines for app testing. Which criteria should be included in your design for this system? ()

9. You have a motherboard that requires a 24 pin connector from a power supply. What types of power supply could you use with this motherboard? ()

10. you recently replaced a malfunctioning video card on your laptop. After reassembling the laptop, everything works well except for the wireless network connection. The wireless adapter functioned correctly before you replaced the video card. What would most likely resolve this problem?

11. Which of the following is a characteristic of a multi-processor system?

12. Which of the following devices helps protect against temporary, above-normal voltages?

13. you need to replace the hard disk in your laptop computer. Which of the following hard drive sizes would you likely choose for the laptop?

14. While troubleshooting a network issue, you successful ping the 127.0.0.1. IP address. Which of the following is true?

15. Which of the following LAN devices receives a signal on one port, and forwards that signal only to the port where the destination device is connected?

16. What is the approximate bus speed of DDR2 memory rated at PC2-5300

17. How do switches and bridges learn where devices are located on a network?

18. What is your top priority when responding to emergencies and hazardous situations?

19. you've just installed the DNS service on a Windows server. Which port must be opened in the server's firewall to allow clients to access the service?

20. Your laptop has an ExpressCard /54 slot. Which of the following is true?

21. What is the most common interface for peripheral devices?

22. which of the following protocols is non-routable and requires another protocol to enable internerwork communications?

23. Your computer has a sound card installed in a PCI slot. The sound card stopped working, so you decide to use the sound card on the motherboard until you can replace the PCI sound card. You remove the card from the PCI slot. When you reboot, you have no sound and the built-in sound card does no show in Device Manager. What should you do?

24. Which of the following terms refers to increasing the clock speed of a component in an effort to increase performance?

25. you have been asked to draft a document related to evidence gathering that contains details about personnel in possession and control of evidence from the time of discovery up through the time of presentation in court. What type of document is this?